At AEW Dynamite Fight For The Fallen, Adam Copeland officially became Cope, shortening his ring name moving forward.
Matt Hardy has known Cope longer than many in wrestling, and on his Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, he commented on the change.
“I think coming in, that’s something he wanted to do. He wanted to get something similar to Edge, right? Whenever I went to WWE and there was a dispute with the names and I wasn’t broken Matt Hardy, I wanted something similar to Broken so I was awoken. That was a word that was getting thrown around a lot on social media and it was kind of an in word at the time. I think instead of using Edge, he was looking for something else that could pop that sounded similar that was one syllable and Cope is what he ended up deciding to go with. It’s different. He’s always going to be Edge to me, no doubt about it, but I get that they’re trying to rebrand him in some certain fashion.
"He’s trying to get something similar to Edge, something that people can remember, something that’s easy, something one syllable that you can pop off the tongue real quick.”
Cope and FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) were victorious at AEW Dynamite Fight For The Fallen, defeating The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, & Claudio Castagnoli).
Elsewhere during the podcast, Hardy commented on the future of TNA Wrestling in 2025. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
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